Description:

Western Europe, probably Italy or France, Neoclassical period, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. A lovely pair of stamped paste glass intaglios: one featuring a standing woman leaning on a pillar with a staff and an orb and the other shows a maenad - a female follower of Dionysus, Roman god of wine - appearing to stumble forward in a drunken stupor with a thyrsus lying in the crook of her left arm as she holds out a wreath in her right hand. Popular throughout the 19th century and still collectible today, stamped glass intaglios, like these, are known as Tassies or Tassie gems after their Scottish creator, James Tassie, and his nephew, William Tassie, who developed a method to mold engraved intaglios into glass gems. Both can be easily set into a ring, necklace, or bracelet for an elegant piece of wearable history! Size (both about the same): 0.8" W x 1.1" H (2 cm x 2.8 cm)

A similar intaglio of a woman with a staff and orb can be found in the Beazley Archive at Oxford University under the reference number 1249.

Provenance: East Coast collection, New York Gallery, New York City, New York, USA, acquired before 2010

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  • Condition: Some minor nicks to peripheries, but otherwise both are intact and excellent with nicely preserved detail. Liberal remains of a signature in area right of maenad.

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